"as the ""Minister for Fun"" after comments he made to the waiting press on leaving 10 Downing Street on his appointment. Retaliation from the media for his ""last chance saloon"" comment came in July 1992, when Mellor's former mistress, actress Antonia de Sancha, sold her kiss and tell story of Mellor's extra-marital affair with her for £35,000. In a precursor to the ""phone-hacking"" scandal that would engulf Rupert Murdoch’s ""News of the World"" in 2006 and later in 2010, their telephone conversations had been secretly recorded by de Sancha's landlord, an activity which at the time was entirely legal in"
"outlets as a ""soft-porn actress"" because she had played the part of a prostitute in a film in which she had simulated sex. The affair with Mellor was a contributory factor in his subsequent resignation from the cabinet on 24 September 1992. Believing her acting career was ruined and aware that newspapers were making money out of the story and she was not, de Sancha hired publicist Max Clifford to sell her story to various newspapers. She made about £30,000 from those sales. The furore that followed publication left her deeply unhappy. ""It was emotional rape"", de Sancha told an"
"interviewer ten years after the scandal referring to the bugging of her flat which led to the affair being made public. She had scarcely any work as an actress since the scandal, and considered the scandal as the reason a subsequent marriage failed. She was the subject of an instalment of the Discovery Channel documentary series ""The Mistress"" in 2002. De Sancha now runs an Indian textiles importing business in Portobello Road, Kensington, west London. Antonia de Sancha Antonia de Sancha (born 14 September 1961 in Hammersmith, London) is an English actress and businesswoman best known as the former mistress"
"Sanford also told reporters that months before his affair became public he had sought counsel at a controversial religious organization called The Family, of which he became a member when he was a Representative in Washington, D.C. from 1995 to 2001. Two other leading Republican politicians who were members of The Family, Senator John Ensign and former Congressman Chip Pickering, also were caught engaging in extra-marital affairs around the same time frame as Governor Sanford. On June 25, ""La Nación"", a Buenos Aires newspaper, identified the Argentinian woman as María Belén Chapur (also reported as ""Maria Belen Shapur""), a 43-year-old"
"of them possessed stock shares in Ibercorp and used them to amass a fortune. Rubio had denied the accusations in 1992, which nonetheless cost him his post. However, the new revelations in 1994, which resulted in his criminal prosecution, put Felipe González and former Economy Minister Carlos Solchaga—who had backed Rubio in 1992, believing his claims of innocence, and were also ultimately responsible for his naming to the post—in a delicate political situation. Agriculture Minister Vicente Albero was also forced to resign his office in May 1994 after it was unveiled he had also possessed a secret account with undeclared"
"controversy following a July 1990 photo shoot for ""Noticias"", Argentina's leading news magazine. The suggestive photo spread was accompanied by an interview in which her relationship with the recently divorced President Menem was discussed. Alsogaray was appointed Secretary of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development (environment) in November 1991, something she attributed in a ""Clarín"" interview at the time to the """"trust the President has deposited in me."""" Alsogaray's tenure at Environment Secretariat, which was elevated to a cabinet-level post by the president, was marked by a number of scandals of a policy nature. These included bid rigging for the refurbishment"
"Linda Medlar Linda Medlar-Jones (born 1949) was a principal figure in a high-profile political sex scandal that triggered an exhaustive 2 ½ year, multimillion-dollar investigation by the U.S. Office of the Independent Counsel during the first term of U.S. President Bill Clinton. The principal target of the investigation was her former lover, Housing and Urban Development secretary Henry Gabriel Cisneros of San Antonio, Texas. The illicit relationship between Medlar and Cisneros, who were both married at the time, began in 1987 while he was Mayor of San Antonio, and she was a volunteer Mayoral campaign staffer. Medlar, who according to"
"secretary in order that her allowance continued. A ship carrying her jewels to France sank en route. The jewels are said to be worth millions. She died on 7 July 1962 in Madrid. A movie on Anita's life titled ""La princesa de Kapurthala"" starring the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz was slated to begin shooting in 2006. However a descendent of Jagatjit Singh, Shatrujit Singh, has opposed the filming since he considers that Javier Moro's novel on which it is based distorts truth, especially the allegations of the Maharajah forcing Anita to an abortion. Anita Delgado Anita Delgado Briones (1890–1962) was"
"to the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam. Alleged mastermind Janet Lim Napoles and Enrile's former chief of staff Gigi Reyes were also charged. Enrile allegedly received Php172 million in kickbacks from public funds. He was detained on 3 July 2014 and suspended from his Senate post on 1 September 2014 for these charges, after his motions to post bail to lift the suspension order were denied Enrile, or """"Manong Johnny"""" as he is often called (""manong"" is an Ilocano term of endearment for an older brother), is married to Cristina Castañer, a Spaniard, who has served as the Philippine Ambassador"
"there's a sense of relief that this is over with. I take full responsibility for it, but at the time I didn't know it was a crime."" Linda Medlar Linda Medlar-Jones (born 1949) was a principal figure in a high-profile political sex scandal that triggered an exhaustive 2 ½ year, multimillion-dollar investigation by the U.S. Office of the Independent Counsel during the first term of U.S. President Bill Clinton. The principal target of the investigation was her former lover, Housing and Urban Development secretary Henry Gabriel Cisneros of San Antonio, Texas. The illicit relationship between Medlar and Cisneros, who were"
"administration from 2002 to 2010. Santos first married Silvia Amaya Londoño, a film director and television presenter, but divorced three years later having no children together. He then married María Clemencia Rodríguez Múnera, or """"Tutina"""" as she is known to those close to her, an industrial designer he had met while she worked as a private secretary at the Ministry of Communications and he was Deputy Director of ""El Tiempo"". Together they had three children, Martín (born 1989), María Antonia (born 1991), and Esteban (born 1993). A new plant species from Northeastern Colombia has been named Espeletia praesidentis, in honour"
"government was confirmed when he became the beneficiary of a soft loan of 5 million dollars during the Fobaproa program. In 2005–06, he became embroiled in scandals of political nature. During this time he was accused of negotiating the non-approval of gambling laws in Mexico with Emilio Gamboa Patrón. He was also named in ""Los Demonios del Edén"" (Demons of Eden), the expose by journalist Lydia Cacho, as having pulled strings to protect child abuser Jean Succar Kuri. Subsequently, he had her charged with defamation and was heard on tape negotiating with Puebla governor Mario Marín for Cacho to be"
"in the 1990s. As a result, this episode has been dubbed by some media as 'the Spanish ""Tangentopoli""' or 'Black October'. On 26 November, judge Ruz summoned Health Minister Ana Mato to court after concluding she could have benefited from several corruption crimes allegedly committed by her former husband Jesús Sepúlveda, charged in the Gürtel case. As a result, Ana Mato resigned from her office that same day, defending that she had not been charged with any penal crime, but declaring that she did not want to bring further harm to her party. A Congress plenary in which Rajoy was"
"and was hired as an extra for theatre shows. Her career in show business started the day she publicly gave a kiss in the mouth to Venezuelan singer Oscar de León live on Peruvian TV. She was working as a part-time receptionist on Panamerican televisión, channel 5, back then. On 10 June 1995, she married Roberto Martínez Vera-Tudela, a popular soccer player & captain of ""la U"". The wedding grabbed headlines in the national press and was broadcast live on television. After some years, the couple divorced. She was involved in a political scandal when a video of her with"
"desired the passing of Stella Araneta. Lopez vehemently denied the allegation as libel, but maintained the accusation that Araneta is an elitist, who refuses to address people of impoverished backgrounds due to her grandiose ego. Lopez maintains that Araneta has never forgiven her for making sexualized films after her reign as Miss Philippines 1982. In 2016, Lopez gained notoriety for a green pageant gown she wore for the 2015 Cannes Film Festival wherein she made comparative comments of her evening gown to the one used by Pia Wurtzbach. In February 2017, Lopez publicly revealed on a televised Philippine morning show"
"TV miniseries ""The Pact"", which presents the official Kirchner version of the relationship between the ""Clarín"" media empire, the largest media conglomerate in Argentina, and the country's last civil-military dictatorship. Guillermo Moreno Guillermo Moreno (b. Buenos Aires, October 15, 1955) is an Argentine politician. He served from 2005 to 2013 as Secretary of Domestic Trade, a position to which he was appointed by President Néstor Kirchner and in which he remained under the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner until his resignation, in the midst of scandal, in November 2013. He was found guilty in March 2014 of abuse of"
"cheating. It came to a head when audio recordings of then Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano and Gloria was released in 2005 despite government threats. The audio recording was of a phone call where Gloria allegedly gave Garcillano instructions to rig the elections in her favor. In what became as the Hello Garci scandal, Gloria gave a televised address where she denied accusations of cheating but admitted that it was her voice on the audio recording, prompting protests and calls for impeachment. Ferdinand Marcos was infamous for placing the country under martial law from 1972-1981 and suppressing civil liberties during his"
"Aída García Naranjo Aída del Carmen Jesús Consuelo García-Naranjo Morales (born 20 March 1951), also known by her nickname ""Mocha"", is a Peruvian educator, singer, and politician, the current Secretary General of the Socialist Party and spokesperson of Gana Perú, the alliance of former President Ollanta Humala. She was the first Minister of Women and Social Development in the Humala government. She served as the ambassador of Peru to Uruguay from January 2012 to June 2014. Since February 2012, she has also been the Peruvian representative to Mercosur and the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI). Aída García Naranjo studied Education"
"June that year became Minister of Communications, serving until the 1992 elections. As communications minister, he was criticized for granting operating licenses to communications entities owned by his associates. However, he was also credited with opening the telephone market, previously dominated by Bezeq, to competition. Pinhasi granted new licenses for last-mile infrastructure, international calling, satellite communications, etc. He retained his seat in the election, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance in August, holding the post until he became Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs. He was forced to resign from the cabinet by the High Court of Justice in September"
"parliament was disrupted by Edwina Currie's revelation in September 2002 that, prior to his promotion to the Cabinet, he had had a four-year extramarital affair with her. Commentators were quick to refer to Major's previous ""Back to Basics"" platform to throw charges of hypocrisy, and an obituary of Tony Newton in ""The Daily Telegraph"" claimed that if Newton had not kept the affair a closely guarded secret ""it is highly unlikely that Major would have become prime minister"". In 1993, Major had also sued two magazines, ""New Statesman and Society"" and ""Scallywag"", as well as their distributors, for reporting rumours"
"The next day, his most important opponent, Jose Maria Figueres Olsen, would accept his defeat.10 In 1990, as Minister of the Interior, he generated controversy over his opposition to a lesbian congress in the country, 11 12 although he stated that only a date change was requested because it coincided with an important Catholic celebration. After serving as Minister of the Interior, he defended Costa Rica's cellular telephone company, Millicom, as a lawyer, accused of preferential treatment during the previous government stage.14 15 16 Desanti was questioned over the allegedly irregular land tenure in Panama and a trip made with"
"to create a watchdog to monitor racism and discrimination was received with suspicion by ADEPA, who called it a ""covert attempt to control the media"". Néstor Kirchner, Cristina's husband and predecessor in office, received a similar rebuke for publicly and falsely denouncing Joaquín Morales Solá, a journalist critical of the government, for having produced an inflammatory text published in 1978. On September 11, 2009, she advanced the decriminalization of injurious calumny against public officials, a charge which had, in 2000, resulted in a prison term of one year for Eduardo Kimel, a journalist investigating the San Patricio Church massacre of"
"has seven children. Longueira is a Roman Catholic. It was alleged that his personal health problems, which took the form of a ""depression"", came about shortly after the political opposition threatened to make public his long standing affair with actress & fellow politician, Andrea Molina just before the Federal election. Pablo Longueira Juan Pablo Longueira Montes (born August 12, 1958) is a Chilean right-wing politician and industrial civil engineer who served as Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile from 2011 to 2013. He is a member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) and served as a Senator before"
"Álvaro Alsogaray, was appointed by Menem to oversee a number of the privatizations carried out from 1989 to 1991. Her role in these negotiations resulted in the sale of these state firms for a fraction of their stated book value. Alsogaray's tenure at Environment Secretariat, which was elevated to a cabinet-level post by the president in 1991, was also marked by a number of scandals. These included bid rigging for the refurbishment of the Haedo Palace (the secretariart's headquarters) and, particularly, of a 1993 plan to decontaminate the Riachuelo (a heavily polluted waterway along Buenos Aires' industrial southside). Alsogaray obtained"
"Armour meatpacking. The story soon became a national scandal known as ""Swiftgate"". Menem in turn accused Verbitsky of being a ""criminal journalist"" and ""Página/12"" of being financed by narcotrafficking. Verbitsky later played a role in reporting ""Milkgate"", a scandal in which Menem's private secretary Miguel Angel Vicco was linked to the sale of spoiled milk to a government agency, forcing his resignation. In 1992, Verbitsky published a compilation of the Menem administration's scandals titled ""I Steal for the Crown"", a quip reportedly from Interior Minister Jose Luis Manzano. The book became a national bestseller. Menem was eventually forced to change"
"money was to be diverted at the same time to Uruguay. The cause of Yomagate involved the secretary and sister-in-law of then Argentine president Carlos Menem, her ex-husband Ibrahim al-Ibrahim (co-director of customs at the Ezeiza airport) and various notorious drug traffickers and launderers like Monzer al-Kassar. Amira Yoma went under preventive detention, which was overruled by the head of the Chamber the Federal Criminal Court Luisa Riva Aramayo; the investigation was cancelled and the investigation cleared all suspects of all charges. Yomagate The Yomagate was a political scandal that took place in Argentina in 1991, during the government of"
"a Ferrari Testarossa in less than two hours, violating speed limits. He divorced his wife Zulema Yoma and expanded the Quinta de Olivos presidential residence with a golf course, a small zoo, servants, barber, and even a buffoon. The swiftgate scandal broke out in 1990, as American investors were damaged by a case of corruption, and asked for assistance from the United States' Ambassador Terence Todman. Most of the ministers resigned as a result of it. Cavallo was reassigned as minister of economy, and his successful economic plan turned him into a prominent figure in Menem's cabinet. Cavallo brought a"
"of the Republic for the 1984-89 period. When the government of Jaime Lusinchi started in February 1984, she was appointed ""private secretary"" of the Presidency. This designation sparked many reactions in public opinion. Many of her critics said that Ibáñez had a high degree of discretional power inside the government. After the end of the Lusinchi presidency, she moved to the United States and married him in New York City on September 11, 1991. There, she founded and directed the magazine ""Mujeres en Acción"" (English: ""Women in Action"") for the denouncement of sexual abuse against women, and also ran the"
"rethink their drugs policy. She was released in May 1991. She and her husband feature strongly in ""News of a Kidnapping"" which was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the documents the kidnappings. She was offered the position of Minister for Education by President César Gaviria in 1993 . Maruja Pachón Castro Maruja Pachón (born December 9, 1948) is a Colombia kidnap victim and Minister for Education. Pachón was born in Cucuta. She married Alberto Villamizar and as result she and her sister in law, Beatriz Villamizar de Guerrero, were kidnapped by Pablo Escobar on 7 November 1990. She may"
"then facing the press on January 5, 2007. On February 19, 2007, Araújo was appointed as new Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Álvaro Uribe, replacing María Consuelo Araújo (no relation to Fernando Araújo) who resigned due to her brother's involvement in the 2006–2007 Colombian para-political scandal. Araújo resigned from the post on July 16, 2008. Araújo is one of the eight children of Alberto Araújo Merlano and Judith Perdomo. Araújo's brothers and sisters are Alberto Ignacio, Liana, Gerardo, Judith Elvira, Carolina, Juan Carlos and Rodrigo. Araújo had four sons from his first marriage; Manuel Santiago, Sergio Alejandro, Fernando Nicolás"
"notoriety during duet with Rico J. Puno in a televised presentation of the song at the 1977 FAMAS Awards Night, when she accidentally exposed her breast while wearing a flimsy gown. Her showbiz career is marred with controversy, as she had relationships with many men, particularly prominent businessmen, club owners, politicians and those from the military. Reyes's career stalled in the 1980s as she suffered from a drinking problem and drug addiction In her later years, Reyes reportedly suffered from depression. In 2006, she accused a former live-in partner Eulogio ""Mang Ely"" Disonglo with domestic abuse, leading to his eventual"
"administration. It issued a final report, known as the Barrett Report, in 2006 that did little to resolve matters. In March 1995, Attorney General of the United States Janet Reno secured the appointment of an Independent Counsel, David Barrett to investigate allegations that Cisneros had lied to FBI investigators during background checks prior to being named Secretary of HUD. He had been asked about payments that he had made to former mistress Linda Medlar, also known as Linda Jones. The affair had been 'public knowledge' for a number of years—during the 1992 presidential campaign, U.S. Treasurer Catalina Vasquez Villalpando publicly"
"resignation of the Council of Ministers. The scandal led to the resignation of Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo and the appointment of a new cabinet headed by Yehude Simon. On October 5, 2008, TV news magazine Cuarto Poder broadcast alleged audio recordings of Alberto Quimper, vice-president of Petroperú, and Rómulo León Alegría, a lobbyist and prominent member of the APRA, the party that was currently in office. In the tape, they discussed secretive $10,000 monthly payments to Quimper, León and Ernesto Arias-Schreiber, the legal representative of the company Discover in Peru, in exchange for steering lucrative petroleum contracts to explore"